( 1 ) THESE appeals arise out of O. S. No. 80 of 1949 on the file of the Subordinate Judge of Kakinada. A. S. No. 637 of 1952 is brought by defendants 1 to 7, 31 to 33, 39, 49 and 50; A. S. No. 684 of 1952 brought by defendants 74 to 77 and 82, and A. S. No. 144 of 53 by defendants 35 to 38 and 40 to 48. The subject matters of these appeals are items 1 to 7, 20. 21, 22, 24 to 30 of plaint A schedule. The petition of the plaint was presented at the instance of two persons by name Venkamma and Sattiraju as reversioners to the estate of one Amutam Venkataswamy who died in or about the year 1887 and was directed against as many as 84 defendants as being in possession of property belonging to the reversioners. The 1st plaintiff is the daughter of the said Venkataswamy and the 2nd plaintiff her son. It is useful and necessary to give a resume of the facts us briefly as possible. 2. Venkataswamy, aforementioned, had incurred debts both on promissory notes and mortgages. On the foot of one of the mortgages executed by him a decree was obtained in O. S. No. 357 of 1888 against the widow of the mortgagor Venkamma (as by that time the mortgagor was dead) by two persons by name Raja